Metro Nashville's middle schools are now called middle 'preps'

Rebranding is part of effort to compete with Metro charters

4:24 AM,
Oct. 12, 2013

Written by

Joey Garrison
| The Tennessean

Don't call them middle schools anymore. They're middle preps - and they have logos to show it.

Borrowing terminology used by charter and private schools, Metro Nashville Public Schools are re-branding their collection of 40 middle schools as the "Middle Preps of Nashville" as part of a new plan to retain more students at the age when they often exit the district.

Though an official announcement is still in the works, Metro has started rolling out the new label. Individual schools, which each have "prep" logos based on their school colors, won't see new signs on marquees or buildings. But ...